Year-End Goal Planning

December 26, 2009
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I’m not into New Year’s resolutions. My experience is that people make resolutions on a whim, but they rarely take the necessary step of developing the plan that would turn the resolution into reality. It’s really a question of whether you have a dream and whether you have a plan. Most New Year’s resolutions are all about the dream – about the desired end result. I would suggest that you look past the dream to the plan that will be necessary to make that dream come true. That said, this is the perfect time of year to set goals and create plans to achieve them. So if you are so inclined, allow me to share three tips for putting together some 2010 goals. 1) Think Short-Term If you’ve never really invested any efforts into goal accountability, I would advise you … Read More…

Ease

December 19, 2009
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I saw this excerpt in Seth Godin’s new book; I thought you might like it. It’s actually written by the ever-insightful Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. Read this excerpt, and then comment with how it spoke to you (or didn’t) in the comment box below. We are the strivingest people who have ever lived. We are ambitious, time-starved, competitive, distracted. We move at full velocity, yet constantly fear we are not doing enough. Though we live longer than any humans before us, our lives feel shorter, restless, breathless… Dear ones, EASE UP. Pump the brakes. Take a step back. Seriously. Take two steps back. Turn off all your electronics and surrender over all your aspirations and do absolutely nothing for a spell. I know, I know – we all need to save the world. But trust me: The … Read More…

Invest in Yourself

December 12, 2009
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Even if your traffic levels drop (as they often do this time of year) you will still be given the same wonderful gift as everyone else – 60 minutes per hour to use as best you can. Time is one of those completely inflexible things. You get no more and no less than anyone else. Bill Gates and every ditch-digger on the planet are granted exactly the same amount of time. In other words, it’s not how much time you have – it’s how you use it. So if the traffic is down and your environment slows down, use that time to invest in yourself. How? Simple – read a book. Find a book you’ve been wanting to read and dedicate yourself to reading it between now and the end of January. If you want to do this right, follow … Read More…

Commitment

December 5, 2009
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Take a moment and read this very powerful quote from Robert Cialdini. In fact, read it twice – or three times. Chew on it. Consider the ramifications. I’ll follow with some comments, but I want to challenge you to find the important messages for you. “Once we realize the power of consistency is formidable in directing human action, an important practical question immediately arises: How is that force engaged? Social psychologists think they know the answer: commitment. If I can get you to make a commitment early on, I will set the stage for your automatic consistency with that earlier commitment. Once a stand is taken, there is a natural tendency to behave in a way that is stubbornly consistent with that stand.” Daniel Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion My thoughts: the final closing question is nothing but problematic unless it … Read More…

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